Bradley Wiggins focuses on a hat-trick

So dominant have the GB team been through two days of track competition that you wonder where the others have gone

The medals won and presented, Bradley Wiggins was sitting in the interview room shooting the breeze with some journalists he knew when the Chinese presenter of the press conference announced that everyone could ask questions of the "Champagne" and it seemed a pretty astute slip of the tongue. By that stage the second night of the track at the Beijing Olympics and already the Great Britain cycling team were guaranteed 11 medals.

Wiggins, though, is more salt of the London earth than Champagne country and he made a little statement by way of an introduction. "For us really," he said, "it's just getting better and better for Team GB, we're just pissin' all over it to be honest, if we're being frank. And that's just a great position to be in."

Pissin' all over it? It was the Olympics the young man was speaking of and more remarkable than the